Saturday, August 15, 2015

A PLACE I LOVE

RANCHO PRIMAVERA - EL TUITO

I love Rancho Primavera in el Tuito, which is an hour´s drive south of Vallarta. It´s ranch and farm country, filled with animals and orchards and is very beautiful country. With storm clouds gathering, it was almost as hot and humid there on Friday as it was in Puerto Vallarta. After checking into the house on the small lake with my three young grandchildren, we went with Bonnie Jauregui, one of the owners, to look at the twenty bunnies and almost as many chickens in the large hen house. Also there and being fostered by Bonnie, a one-year old rescued macaw named "Eduardo," who is just learning to fly from ropes to a large branch and a dangling piece of driftwood.

"EDUARDO" - APRENDIENDO VOLAR DESPUES DE ESTAR RESCATADO

It was a surprise when he landed on my head. After a swim in the lap pool, we walked back to the lake house to change into our riding clothes and to cover our exposed skin with olive oil. It seems to be the best protection against bites from the "jejenes," the tiny mosquitoes that are called "no-see-ems" by northerners. On the side of the dirt road, we spotted a slender green garden snake slithering through the grass with the head of a large green and yellow frog in its mouth. The legs of the frog were still moving.

We met Bonnie at the stables, who had rounded up five of the twenty-plus horses that roam free on the gorgeous 2000-acre property. A beautiful four-week old foal was there nursing from a horse that Bonnie hadn´t known was pregnant. There are no stallions on the ranch, so the mama had had a visitor.

Bonnie had been worried about the baby soon after its birth, because he had been bitten by his brother, a yearling, as well as by vampire bats. The foal, yet to be named, is thriving.

BONNIE JAUREGUI, UNA DE LOS DUEÑOS DE RANCHO PRIMAVERA

Early evening riding was on some of the many trails, through mango orchards, past passion fruit vines growing next to a stream, and across the green meadows where white ginger grows wild, giving off a delicious fragrance.

JINGEBRE BLANCA - WHITE GINGER

Dinner was late - and tasty- in a tented taco stand, while torrents of rain fell and thunder and lightning filled the sky above us. www.ranchoprimaveramexico.com

ROUSSEAU

NOT ABOUT CATS AND DOGS: As importing ivory to the U.S. was finally outlawed, perhaps importing heads of endangered trophy animals will be outlawed sometime in the future. These beautiful animals belong to the earth and should not be allowed to disappear forever. Please consider signing and sharing: https://www.change.org/p/president-barak-obama-ban-all-imports-of-trophy-heads-of-endangered-animals

Looking at this wonderful photograph below, I cannot imagine how anyone would get pleasure out of destroying this noble and beautiful animal.

ANIMALS ARE SO FASCINATING AND SO BEAUTIFUL ALIVE

South African Airlines continues to transport "trophy" heads. This is about money. To protest via Humane Society International´s petition: https://action.hsi.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=104&ea.campaign.id=40925&ea.tracking.id=facebook (FedEx and DHL also transport trophy heads). You can also call SAA in the U.S. 954-769-5000 (then dial 5 for corporate
communications).

Two endangered beaked whales, beached on the shores of the Faroe Islands this week, were slaughtered with knives by the local residents. In other parts of the world, humans make great efforts to get beached whales back into the water because they have a reverence for rife. Several days later, dozens of pilot whales were herded into the infamous cove and stabbed to death. Two hundred and fifty pilot whales were hacked to death in the Faroe islands weeks ago. This is the behavior of savages. To protest: Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen - email: stm@stm.dk

The good news - Last year, Disney Cruises cancelled all visits to the Faroes and this week two major German cruise-liner companies, AIDA and Hapag-Lloyd, have cancelled as well.

CATS AND DOGS: They are not endangered anywhere. In Mexico and in many other countries they are simply in danger of being born to suffer. Unwanted and uncared for cats and dogs starve, are hit by vehicles, become diseased, are abandoned and abused. Estimates of the pet food industry and UNAM are that 50% of Mexican
homes have pets, which means over 20 million companion animals have owners. Many owned dogs run free on the streets, live on a roof or tied up in a garage or outside a house or business.

There are over 10 million homeless cats and dogs in Mexico. The number of pounds is low - not even half the municipalities have one. Pounds are required by law to keep strays for 72 hours before disposing of them, usually by electrocution, which is allowed by the Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM 033). No estimates are available on how many cats and dogs are put to death annually in Mexico.

Every year in the U.S. there are an estimated 7.6 companion animals in pounds and shelters. Approximately half of these animals are dogs and 31% of them are euthanized annually.

DR. ANTHONY Y DR.POLI -CLÍNICA DE VALLE DORADO

VALLE DORADO, NAYARIT - From centro, it is about a 45-minute drive to Valle Dorado in the nearby state of Nayarit. Both the states of Jalisco and Nayarit share Banderas Bay. The neighborhood of Valle Dorado ("Golden Valley") is a few minutes drive north of Nuevo Vallarta, which is very upscale and doesn´t have anything of Old Mexico about it. Valle Dorado is not a golden valley. It is a real estate development with rows and rows of small, one-story cement and cinder box houses that sell for about $60,000 US. This is a community of hard-working families, many of whom work at the hotels and time shares in Nuevo Vallarta.

It had been a year since PEACAnimals visited this neighborhood, and there were lots of animals to take care of.

There are two wonderful cats - a male tabby and a black long-haired female - living in an abandoned house two blocks from our home. I feed them twice daily and have taken them both to be sterilized. They will both make great pets - smart and affectionate. I´ll be happy to deliver one or both to you. Please contact me if interested.

NOTE:
PEACEAnimals, per our agreement with independent contractors, Pets for Life, is
obliged to pay extra for driving time and gasoline for areas outside Puerto
Vallarta.

Clinic
schedule, including directions and other clinic information are always on
website: www.peaceanimals.org
and on this blog: www.gretchen-peace-and-pv.blogspot.com

ANDREA, ESTUDIANTE VETERINARIA, EN LA CLÍNICA DE VALLE DORADO

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LUNCH DONATIONS
NEEDED FOR VET TEAM: PEACEAnimals has a budget of 70 pesos per vet team individual
(three persons) per day for 4 days a week for lunches.

Please consider
bringing lunches for our vet team to the clinics. If you can do this, please
let me know so we can create a lunch schedule. By having lunches donated, these
savings can used for purchases of supplies and medicines.

FRANK OHLY, QUIÉN ES VOLUNTARIO 2 VECES CADA SEMANA

WE
NEED VOLUNTEERS AT THE CLINICS. Please sign up:
infopeaceanimals@gmail.com

If directions
needed, please call our dedicated line (directions are only in Spanish) or
refer to our website or this blog.

COST FOR ONE
SURGERY WEEK CLINIC IS APPROXIMATELY $1,800 USD.

THE TWO HOUSES FOR RENT AT RANCHO PRIMAVERA - EL TUITO - www.ranchoprimaveramexico.com

PLEASE CONSIDER
MAKING A DONATION VIA CHECK, CREDIT CARD, PAYPAL, BEQUEST OR STOCK
TRANSFER. Note: Stocks are transferred at full value without the
donating stock owner being taxed. Name of recipient of
donations for all donations is simply "PEACE."

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About Me

Gretchen DeWitt is president of the board of directors of PEACEAnimals, which was founded in 2011. She was co-founder of the SPCAPV, where she served as president for 18 months before joining the board of directors of PEACE MEXICO. Her focus was raising funds for "Ayuda a los Animales," a free spay/neuter program.